The sliding decade

North American music of the 1930´s is, beyound any doubt, one of the major turning points of the cultural heritage of the 20th. century. For me, the works of Delta blues guitar artists are still one of most powerfoul sounds ever recorded, as we can listen in Alam Lomax´s field recordings or, just for instance, the only surviving 24 songs by Robert Johnson. The slide techique -the use of a metal or glass tube in the left hand to stroke strings up and down- widely mastered by musicians those days, produces a raw, deep cry moaning that, for me, is the very simbol of what happened wordwide in those barely decade in wich everything seemed to blow up in smoke.
That´s why I thought about this tube to name our club!

Take 3 - The Slide

For the third edition of our bookclub we will focus on two classics that portayed the society of the United States time in a unique way. The setting time is only a few years away but the world is completely different. 

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Number 2 on the Modern Library list of “the 100 best novels of all time”

F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his new love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4671.The_Great_Gatsby

Setting time: Summer 1922. Settings place: Long Island and New York City.

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers

Number 17 on the Modern Library list of “the 100 best novels of all time”

When she was only twenty-three, Carson McCullers's first novel created a literary sensation. She was very special, one of America's superlative writers who conjures up a vision of existence as terrible as it is real, who takes us on shattering voyages into the depths of the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition. This novel is the work of a supreme artist, Carson McCullers's enduring masterpiece. The heroine is the strange young girl, Mick Kelly. The setting is a small Southern town, the cosmos universal and eternal. The characters are the damned, the voiceless, the rejected.

http://www.randomhousebooks.com/books/110964/

Setting time: Spring 1938–August 1939. Setting place: An unnamed town in the middle of the Deep South

We will recreate The Great Gatsby, the book and the world at the time it was written from december 2018 to February 2019. Then, we will revive The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter from March to May 2019.

I sincerely hope we will enjoy the works.

Classics Revisited - Take 2

The Old Man and the Sea

Classics Revisited